Staunton Vindicator

We commend in all sincerity these Springs, situated about thirteen miles from Staunton, to the health and pleasure seeking public. The waters--an analysis of which by an experienced chemist of the University, can be obtained by application to the proprietor--are pronounced invaluable for medicinal purposes by the best judges.

We have just returned from a visit to these Springs, where we found the accommodations good and the fare most excellent. The Superintendent, Mr. Peter Woodward, has had much experience as a landlord, and is decidedly the most accommodating gentleman it has ever been our pleasure to meet with in this selfish world. We very believe if some credulous epicure should desire for his dinner a nice slice of green cheese from the moon, 'twould be forthcoming, if Woodward could, by any possible or impossible means, get a ladder tall enough to reach that romantic orb.

While our "City Fathers" are making appropriations for the purpose of lighting the town with gas, and paving some of our dilapidated streets, we would earnestly invoke their aid, to relieve the horrors of the plank walk leading from the town to the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution. If our information is reliable on this subject, the Institution and the gentlemen residing in that portion of the town, bore the whole burden of building that walk, and we think the Corporation, whose citizens have for a long time enjoyed that (until the last few years) delightful promenade, should bear its part in its repair. The walk at present is in a melancholy condition of dilapidation--in the day time worthless for the purposes for which it was made, and at night actually dangerous.

Wheat this year is generally considered good, and the yield abundant, but the most extraordinary lot turn out which we have heard, was upon a lot of a half acre of ground in the neighborhood of Duffield's Depot, owned and harvested by Mr. John Miller. The crop of this half acre lot, yielded nineteen bushels measured wheat, which weighed sixty-six pounds to the bushel, making by weight within a fraction of twenty-one bushels.-- Spirit of Jefferson